Urban Folklore: Marta Minujín's Postwar Assemblage and the modern city

Mazadiego, Elize (2021). Urban Folklore: Marta Minujín's Postwar Assemblage and the modern city. In: Frigeri, Flavia; Handberg, Kristian (eds.) New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era. Multiple Modernisms (pp. 70-81). New York: Routledge 10.4324/9780367140854-7

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This chapter focuses on Minujín’s experimentation with assemblage as it developed and expanded into environmental forms following her sojourn in Paris, and its particular relation to the city of Buenos Aires. If assemblage was the emerging art form to make visible the concrete reality of a new and accelerating modernity, city was a central trope. In addition to giving form to Buenos Aires’ physical environment, the copious presence of television sets in La Menesunda seems to make reference to contemporaneous changes in urban culture, primarily the proliferation of new media. The installation of private bedroom, occupied by a heterosexual couple in bed listening to the sounds of the Beatles hinted at shifting urban social values, such as the liberalization of sexual mores. Unlike the sociological study, La Menesunda is less a detailing and theorization of urban environment as it is an attempt to reconstitute the sensorial experience of Buenos Aires’ modernization, familiarizing the visitor with city and its everyday encounters.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Recent and Modern Art History
UniBE Contributor:	Mazadiego, Elize Marie
Subjects:	700 Arts
ISBN:	9780367140854
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Elize Marie Mazadiego
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2024 13:55
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2024 13:55
Publisher DOI:	10.4324/9780367140854-7
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/188338